Types of Word Play
Examples
Personification
Pg. 78 "If you knew time as well as I do, you wouldn't talk about wasting it, it's him."
Pg. 71 "I dare say you never even spoke to Time"
Pg. 48 "A large blue caterpillar that was sitting with his arms crossed quietly smoking a long hookah.."
Pg. 78 "Your hair wants cutting"
Lexicon
Pg. 26 "Curiouser and curiouser."
Pg. 42 "It was much pleasanter at home" thought poor Alice.
Repetition
Pg. 31 "Are you, are you scared of dogs?"
Pg. 72 "Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle."
Pg. 30 "A mouse- of a mouse- to a mouse- a mouse oh mouse!"
Pg. 20 "Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end!"
Assonance
Pg.28 "Dear, dear. How queer is everything today."
Pg. 66 "Did you say pig or fig?"
Syntax
Pg. 21 "Do cats eat bats? Do bats eat cats?"
Pg. 69 "I eat what i see. I see what i eat."
Pg. 69 "I breathe when i sleep. I sleep when i breathe."
Pg. 59 "For the Duchess. An Invitation from the Queen to play croquet.
From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet."
Pg. 66 "Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin, but a grin without a cat!"
Diction
Pg. 55 "Let me alone!"
Pg. 37 "Telling a tale, in a tail shape tale itself looks like a tail"
Alliteration
Pg. 25 "To pretend to be two people"
Pg. 25 "Which way? Which way?"
Pg. 26 "Or perhaps they won't walk the way they want to go."
Pg. 70 "It was the best butter"
Pg. 75 "That begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness you knowyou say things are much of a muchness."
Pun
Pg. 37 "It's a long and sad tale. It's a long tail."
Pg. 38 "I had not. A knot!"
Pg. 62 "You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis"said Alice; the Duchess replies "Talking of axes chop off her head."